Re: Selecting partions to use via preseed.cfg

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 08/12/13 23:39, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > > On 08/12/13 04:54, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > I am aware of the options demonstrated in
> > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt .
> > > >
> > > > They do not cover my case of interest.
> > >
> > > ?
> > > true, but it refers you to partman-auto-recipe.txt which "appears" to
> > > "cover your case of interest". [snip]
> >
> > My description was unclear. See my reply to Mr. Carter.
>
> The example you gave Mr. Carter:-
>
> > A typical scheme is
> > sda1 - an install resembling typical user defaults
> > sda5, sda6, sda7 - a "current" experimental installs
> > sda8 - local repository
> > sda9 - swap
> > All the disk space is accounted for.
> > I then choose among (sda5, sda6, sda7) for target of next trial.
>
>
> And my question remains:-
> How does "partition recipe" approach *not* do that??
>
> In case I'm still unclear - the "partition recipe" approach can be used
> to do an automated install to sda5/sda6/sda7 as given in your example -
> unless there's a conditional logic for which you haven't shown the
> algorithm.

There is no additional logic.

> i.e.:-
> 1. choose from one of the detected formatted partitions OR supply the
> preseed cfg with the identity of that partition

How?
I don't find description of that procedure nor an example.
The reference documentation I'm using is:
   http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en
   http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt;hb=HEAD




> 2. format the partition
> 3. do single partition install to that partition
>
> If partman-auto can do it then the partition recipe will work.
>
> Kind regards